Beginning their career as a popular surf band, the Beach Boys had emerged by 1966 as one of the world's preeminent pop groups. With input from band members, this book's easy-to-browse, day-by-day format tracks every move in the great band's career, detailing its entire concert and broadcast history, recording sessions, and all records issued in the US and the UK. It also profiles Brian Wilson, one of the most gifted songwriters, producers, and arrangers in popular music, who says of the book: "I'm so proud of the work I did long ago with Beach Boys, and it's so great to see the details of the best years of our career collected with such love in one place." The Author Keith Badman is a regular contributor to Record Collector and Mojo magazines, and lives in London, England.